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NEWS 



The following appointments are announced : — Dr Lehman Nitsche to be 

 keeper of the department of Anthropology in the La Plata Museum, in succession 

 to Dr Ten Kate ; Dr P. Zwaardeniaker to be professor of physiology in the 

 University of Utrecht ; Dr Carl Zelinka to be professor of zoology in the 

 University of Czernowitz ; W. L. Bray to be professor of botany in the Univer- 

 sity of Texas ; H. L. Jones to be associate professor of botany in Oberlin College ; 

 Dr Hans Reusch, director of the geological survey of Norway, to be Sturgis- 

 Hooper professor of geology in Harvard University, for the season 1897-98. 



We have had occasion to refer to the good work that has lately been done in 

 the Bootle Museum. The Committee did well when, some three years ago, they 

 engaged Mr H. C. Chad wick as museum assistant. We therefore regret to learn 

 that they can no longer afford to retain his services. 



The new Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences was opened 

 early in October, when President Eliot of Harvard delivered an address. 



Dr Alexander Hill, Master of Downing College, has been elected Vice- 

 Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. 



The Eighth International Geological Congress is to meet in Paris in 1900, the 

 year of the Exhibition. The visit to Vienna, which was to have taken place in 

 that year, is postponed to 1903. 



Reuter announces that Nossilor has arrived at Tiumen from the Kara Sea. 

 He has explored the Yalmal peninsula, and discovered a shorter waterway 

 between Siberia and Europe, and one free from the sea ice. 



It is proposed to decorate the Zoological Park at Washington with bronze 

 groups of Indians and wild animals. Mr Edward Kemeys will probably receive 

 this commission, which will put on record many vanishing types of animal life. 



The Botanical Gazette announces that the Smithsonian Institution has ap- 

 pointed a commission, with Dr V. Havard as chairman, to collect information 

 concerning the medicinal qualities of the plants of the United States of America. 



Mr R. C. Christie has presented to the Owens College, Manchester, his share 

 of the estate of the late Sir Joseph Whitworth, estimated at about £50,000. The 

 fund is to be devoted to a new building with which the name of Whitworth can 

 be associated. 



According to the Athenceum, it is proposed to establish at Swansea a branch 

 University College in association with either Cardiff or Aberystwyth. This town 

 already possesses an important library and museum in the Royal Institution of 

 South Wales. 



The Academy of Sciences of Berlin has granted a sum of 3000 marks to Prof. 

 B. Hagen, Frankfurt, for the publication of an anthropological atlas ; 1500 marks 

 to Prof. Kohen, Greifswald, for mineralogical researches ; and 800 marks to Prof. 

 R. Bonnet, Greifswald, for anatomical work. 



Science states that plans have already been made for the new building of the 

 American Geographical Society, New York, although the site has not yet been 



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